http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Britain's National Health Service may soon offer women at high risk of developing breast cancer drugs normally used to treat the disease as a prevention strategy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-uk-drugs-breast-cancer.html Cancer Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:23:45 EST news277460619 India's Supreme Court said Thursday that unregulated clinical trials of new drugs were causing "havoc" in the country as it ordered the health ministry to monitor any new applications for tests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-drug-trials-india-havoc-human.html Medications Thu, 03 Jan 2013 05:45:45 EST news276414338 There's a new push to make testing for the AIDS virus as common as cholesterol checks. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:16:17 EST news272567765 (AP) -- A powerful health advisory agency says Britain should extend free fertility treatments to women up to age 42 as well as same-sex couples, recommendations likely to be followed by many of the U.K.'s medical centers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-uk-ivf-older-women-same-sex.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 22 May 2012 12:46:57 EST news256909609 Four years after US drug-maker Baxter International's blood thinner heparin was contaminated in China, causing dozens of deaths, US regulators on Friday issued draft guidelines for safe production. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-issues-guidelines-heparin-contamination.html Medications Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:50:02 EST news248102464 (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is preparing to review the first lower-cost versions of biotech drugs, expensive medications which have never before faced generic competition. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-fda-outlines-path-lower-priced-biotech.html Medications Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:50:26 EST news248032203 The American Cancer Society has revised its guideline formation process to achieve greater transparency, consistency, and rigor in creating guidance about cancer screening. The new methods align with new principles from the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) by creating a single generalist group for writing the guidelines, commissioning systematic evidence reviews, and clearly articulating the benefits, limitations, and harms associated with cancer screening tests. The new process is outlined in a Special Communication in the December 14, 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-american-cancer-society-screening-guideline.html Cancer Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:25:12 EST news243015905 (AP) -- Pregnant women in Britain, where the government provides free health care, may soon be able to get a cesarean section on demand thanks to a rule change that critics describe as the health system caving into the "too posh to push" crowd. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-posh-c-sections-demand-uk.html Health Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:55:29 EST news239615716